“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Book VI, Chapter 7.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336) <br class="br">Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224) <br class="br">Source: The Woman in White (1859)
“A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 7
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
Source: Queen of the Darkness
“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36
“And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is ever wide.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Nemesis
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Fate http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20569&c=323 <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)